WSJ Tax Demagoguery

Truth and the politics of envy do not intersect.

Dilbert Cancelled after comments on race

This is the episode in question 

What he said, in response to a poll that claims that almost half of Blacks asserted that it is not OK to be white, is that makes Blacks a Hate Group and that considering the number of White people being beaten by Blacks simply for being White the besrt thing for White people to do is to stay away from Blacks, and stop trying to help. That there was no way for White people to fix the problem and that it was a problem for Blacks to fix themselves.

The response from media has been withering and his comic strip has been cancelled by hundreds of newspapers.

But none of his critics has been able to say where, in context, he is wrong.

WSJ : Bidenomics no basis in math

Will we have to wait until we default on what we owe our elders before we face hard math?

Remember that Europe pays for its social programs with flat payroll and consumption taxes, we alone try to live off the rich.

Robert Bryce Big Money on Climate Policy

We constantly hear that politicians are in the pocket of “Big Oil” but it turns out it is the other way around.  Political spending on Energy policy by Big Green is more than four times that spent by Fossil Fuel/Nuclear advocates.

That comes from a mix of those cynically cashing in on wind and solar manufacture, utilities hungry for subsidy dollars, and a caste of American and European Oligarchs who fly around in private jets unconcerned with the impact of $5 gas and expensive food and electricity for the serfs.

So, in this David and Goliath battle, it turns out that Exxon is David.

WSJ Geoengineering

A lot.

First, setting loose a process to remove CO2 could get away from us. If CO2 drops below 300ppm, agriculture could not support more than about half of us. Get it below 200ppm and everything dies. We have a much wider margin for error for higher CO2 than lower.

But just as bad, screwing around with albedo has even narrower margins, and we’re overdue for another glaciation anyway.

It is foolish to turn on any large scale tweaking of  albedo that we can’t quickly turn off, because that is a positive feedback loop that has existed in the past, and it ends with 2 miles of ice over Detroit.

Michigan State shooter should have been in prison

Once again, someone who should have been prosecuted, wasn’t, and goes on to do great harm.

Maybe use the laws we have before making new ones that only make it harder for the victims to defend themselves.

The latest study shows that 97.8% of mass shootings occur in places where citizens are not allowed to be armed.

Maybe disarming good people while letting bad people roam free no matter what they do isn’t the best approach.

Highly qualified candidate removed for rejecting socialism

It wasn’t enough to reject her because for ideological reasons, they had to add a false accusation of racism. Virginians are going to get disgusted with this sooner or later.

Capitol building occupied 

OK, so it’s Oklahoma, but it’s the same thing.

Children ejected from Smithsonian for hats

The hats, worn to identify members of a catholic school group and keep them together, had “Pro Life” embroidered on the hems. Docents told them they were not allowed and that the museum was a neutral zone where their rights did not apply.

I wonder if the courts will be selling tickets for those arguments.

VA Dems Block requirement for notifying parents

Louise Luca’s “Blue Wall” promising to kill anything the GOP passes in the House is going to come back to bite her. She is rapidly cementing the GOP identity as the “Parent Party” which was what carried Youngkin to victory.

But carry on,